Scans_daily: an oldfag thread

I think it's been long enough after the shitstorm that be could talk about this again.

Anybody here remember scans_daily?

>Scans Daily (often called S_D or s_d) was a popular Livejournal community, founded in 2003, where scans from any kind of comics could be posted. It began as a slash-oriented community, along the lines of other image-based daily communities, populated mainly by female comics fans (most of whom were also in slash-oriented media fandoms), and generally focused on mainstream superhero comics.

>After a year or two of existence it began to rapidly expand in both size and scope. Occasionally, noted comics professionals (such as David Hahn, Dan Slott, and Gail Simone) left comments on Scans Daily posts. Warren Ellis even made his own posts to the community via his Livejournal account. [1] Occasionally, posts featuring rare, out-of-print or particularly interesting material were picked up and featured by widely read non-comics-focused blogs such as Metafilter. [2][3] Popular comics linkblog Journalista has featured a Scans Daily Link of the Day for many years.

>In 2009, S_D was suspended from Livejournal due to a copyright infringement claim from Marvel Comics, after which the current set of moderators re-created it on InsaneJournal in the form of two communities, Scans Daily 2.0 and No Scans Daily. Some months later, it migrated to its current home on Dreamwidth.

Other urls found in this thread:

peterdavid.net/2009/02/28/scans-daily/
laurajmixon.com/2014/11/a-report-on-damage-done-by-one-individual-under-several-names/
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

I myself remember scans_daily back in the good old days and it was going to that community that got me interested in comics in the first place.

Even though it was a "slash"(homoerotic) community it actually had a pretty diverse set of commentators and the like. It wasn't just yaoi.

Oh yes, the time that they ran off Gail Simone. And then how fucking long it took for neo_prodigy to get run off as a moderator, because of how he used his status as a black gay man to be abusive as fuck to the largely female regulars.

Oh yeah. My posts on there are one of the first hits if you want to look up on obscure Sandman miniseries the "the girl who would be death" seriously.

Yeah, that was the crazy crisis of 2011

I did an entire retrospective of Devilman at one point. Good times.

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scans_daily helped me get into comics. The old scans_daily, the one bluefall and foxhack use to post on with all the innuendo and porn weeks back in 2007-2009 was great.

Then Peter David had to destroy it, which is why I'll hate him forever.

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PAD denied it.
peterdavid.net/2009/02/28/scans-daily/

>But somewhere along the way, it morphed into posters giving page by page summaries of new comics, complete with the entire pages. Writing a critical review and posting up a panel or a page to illustrate a point falls under fair use. Posting over half the book while saying, “This happened, then this happened, then this happened,” is not remotely fair use and a blatant copyright violation.

>Well…no. Again: My intervention wound up having no impact. And besides, if anyone got Scans Daily shut down, it was the fans themselves. Some will own up to that reality. Many, I suspect, won’t.

I lurked in the original before I discovered Sup Forums. Heck I'm probably here because it was deleted.

They got mad at some Peter David story, and when the man himself dropped by, someone told him to die in a fire.

Turns out he had a friend who recently did die in a fire so he didn't take it well.

So it's suspected that he was probably the one to file a copyright complaint and got the page delete

I don't believe him at all. It was him throwing a fit over that story with Jamie Madrox getting posted.

The sad part was that he was very much loved by scans daily his shit would get posted to all the time. Hell the post on scans daily made me like young justice and made me hate at the time current teen titans.

He's just doubling down.
>It wasn't me, but the fans who provoked me.

There was a lot of interesting and obscure comics posted on the old livejournal version.

All lost now.

The insanejournal version kept the flame burning until it came to Dreamwidth. And things where good for a time, until the mods went to far with trying to police the language and ideas.

If I remember correctly they banned someone for using the word "lame" to describe something or someone. Which I guess was bad because its ablist.

CHRIST, I still can't believe these """mods""" were for real. And people say Sup Forums mods are bad.

There was another one where I kid you not remember Carlie Cooper? Well she was not well liked and people made a Poochie joke about her and the mod said they were wishing females character death was a no no.

The "lame" debacl was the beginning of the end for me, followed by the lack of porn, and finally when they posted this long winded self congratulation about nothing politically incorrect would ever happen, like everyone in the community wasn't already as polite and friendly as possible.

>If I remember correctly they banned someone for using the word "lame" to describe something or someone.

Your joking...right?

Yep. I remember that.

I remember running into an ex-mod somewhere else much later, and they were really apologetic about how bad it had gotten and their own excesses.

Nope.

Man, not even tumblr is this oversensitive.

I miss old S_D. They got me into a few comics, but John Ostrander's Suicide Squad is my favorite that they introduced to me.

I miss old Sup Forums where we used to joke that Sup Forums was entirely women (because who else would be interested in sweaty muscular men wrestling each other in cheap spandex?) and I could mention S_D freely in casual conversation without anyone getting upset by S_D's politics.

And as long as we're on the topic of the initials S and D, never forget that S/D is still trash.

That's lame

Sup Forums is made up of old scans_daily refugees.

I remember when Rob Liefeld mentioned them on Facebook once.

And throwing a fit over someone saying DIAF to him, and he took it as a threat. I wish someone would post THAT shitstorm.

Yea the fact that they ran off frikking Simone should tell you enough about that site. Say what you will about her work but Gail Simone is genuinely a nice person. Its literally an echo chamber. Also there PAD ban is fucking retarded.

So many people were banned for posting PAD's work despite them having proof that PAD was okay with posting it. Like fucking hell.

Erik Larsen tried to warn y'all about him years ago.
Granted, Erik is a bit of a nutter too, but still...

This and the mods warning a black guy for being racist against black people is what made me quit.

Early s_d was good though, a lot of good times but once the original mod left and the crazy girl-wonder proto-SJW took over it just went to the toilet, you couldn't have a discussion because the moment someone was offended you got a warning and with three warnings it was an auto ban no matter what.

The community was started by early 00's and 90's fangirls IIRC and in thise times fangirls were always about the gay, the porn, and the feels but without all the SJW stuff.

I recall people making some inapproproate jokes in early s_d and people posting offensive comics and just making fun of them both things will eatn you a ban in the Dreamwidth s_d.

Old Sup Forums had its problems and it was sloe as fuck but because superheroes weren't that popular and the MCU hadn't kicked off the other boards left us mostly alone.

Old Sup Forums also wasn't as easy to bait or hell maybe because it was a slow moving board it wasn't worth it.

MCU, DCEU and Marvel going full SJW brought a lot of cancer

I vaguely remember that exchange, the user who told him that was batshit crazy

>Then Peter David had to destroy it, which is why I'll hate him forever.

I can't completely because s_d was already going down the toilet by somewhere around 2007 and 2008. If the incident hadn't happened it would've still downward spiraled to the point where you have mods freaking out over people using the word "lame."

That said it is a shame the entire thing was lost since it would've been great to look back and see all the comics being brought up. Also to see where things actually went wrong first.

I wonder what it's like now. I assume the restrictions to create a new account + overbearing moderation + gradual exodus of most members probably turned it into a barely functional community like the John Byrne Forum.

The fact that Scans Daily people have come to this board, the JSA story time crowd for example, is where I see the SJW creep.

The best part is, these people are pirates. They are literally posting images they do not own! If this was just them posting on a chat board there would be five readers. All this talk of 'ethos and principle'.

Bluefall still did on the new one. And she was a fucking SJW bitch.

And good on PAD for destroying that faggotty repressive hellhole.

It's extremely quiet, a few people still post regularly on their pet topics

LOL

And this is why I hold hope for america. Inevitably all the little snow flakes, faggots and tranny and race baiters, will push too hard. When you start attacking Simone, who is literally your ho...

>the JSA story time crowd for example
Oh boy it's this fucker again

>And good on PAD for destroying that faggotty repressive hellhole.
But PAD destroyed the good s_d, not the bad s_d.

You've had ten fucking years to learn the difference.

Yeah the fangirls changed a lot in recent years. The fandoms became very politicized and it's really fucking weird to see them writing entire essays about how [insert ship] is problematic.

In ye olde times people would just start ship wars because "your ship is shit and mine is better". Now they get into shipping wars because whatever pairing is "problematic" and "i'm literally shaking because your ship is triggering". It's so weird.

They loved him because he had gay and trans shit everywhere. His run on supergirl basically had her harassed by a lesbian who could turn into a man.

David was always a blunt hammer and that bluntness cuts both ways. He doesn't code speak well enough for modern liberals, see his gypsy comments.

What's really funny is that the original use of SJW was by people in fandom who just wanted to do their shit ("your kink is not my kink and that's okay") to describe people who used the language of feminism/anti-racism/social justice/whatever to justify their attacks on things that they didn't like. Then language drift rendered that useless.

People from Scans Daily posted here even as far back as 2007. K-Box was one, Cyberghostface I think was another. I know King Prawn from Portal of Evil/POE News/Bo News was on Scans Daily under a different name and wouldn't be surprised if he posted here, too.

Some of them have snuck in, but fortunately the rules are so lax its hard to be a feminazi bitch mod here.

What if Spider-Man's penis was really small ha ha just as a joke ha ha wouldn't that be funny ha?

>When you start storytimes nightly then you can talk.

>jokes about violence to women not permitted

So no physical comedy.

>Jokes about fridging

Okay, you know what, fuck Simone for that made up shiterm. The fridging incident, a one time event in the 90s, was written by Ron Marz. An arch SJW that has advocated boycotting Orson Card's works because he opposed gay marriage, comic cons that don't have visual harassment rules, and attacked gamers gate for some reason?

The worst thing about that is that I wouldn't have had a problem with him trying to push his fetish if he hadn't been such an asshole to other people like around 2007 or 2008 or something, around the time of OMD/BND. Cause that was when I was noticing he seemed like he was complaining for the sake of complaining and trying to justify it for flimsy reasons.

Liefeld mentioning how clueless SD was/is just makes me love him more as the horrible troll he is.

He finally got banned from s_d because he wouldn't stop being creepy to specific people after repeated warnings.

You were ALWAYS political. Everyone just understood that you were the minority and stepping out of line would mean a good bitch slapping. Elitist institutions shifting left have emboldened the worst of you.

Shit you not, I once saw a Tumblr post that said people should call other "Ass-holes", why? Because, it's "Body Shaming".

Difference, same fucking people. Posting mostly the same shit, just not whole issues. S/d was shit, it was bad shit. Babies first image board not withstanding.

forgive my mistake then. You talk like the posts I read on S/D. You like the same things. You don't like the impression, don't fucking act like them.

*Shouldn't

I can confirm that the storyteller is part of the lj community.

Man, people love shitting on Rob Liefeld but I'd like to be his friend. He seems like a chill guy.

Did he? I thought he got banned on regular s_d over some political flame war and got banned on noscans because of the things he was saying during his rant about Scott Pilgrim. Then again I ended up missing both since I rarely read the sites by then.

Only to people who buy his work. He was an asshole to Scott Snyder a few years ago for no reason.

>>Anybody here remember scans_daily?
I don't

what's this about?
is this another sinfest thing where any thread gets deleted automatically?

Oh God, he was obsessed.

Exactly. And you know what, theres a reason S/D is the shit hole it is. Because people had these ridiculous views of human sexuality and gender. Look, if you take fucking so seriously, you aren't doing it right.

I think a lot of the oldfags on Sup Forums probably come from there.

I would rather get actual constructive discussion and posting of comics than [out of context panel] and [I want to fuck this cartoon girl] threads though.

I wonder how long you've been on Sup Forums.

He's lying of course. I remember the day that the shit all went down. PAD said he go apeshit if someone spoiled the X-Factor twist. Then someone posted said twist on Scans Daily. Then another linked said thread to CBR. CBR being CBR probably had someone snitch to PAD who then went to Marvel legal.

PAD had to be involved given I got a legal notice from Marvel legal via e-mail notice. And guess which one out of all my posts at Scans Daily they wanted of all the stuff wanted down the most? Amazing Spider-Man #289 written by.... PAD.

It's almost poetic in a way that he'd kill the site that was build up on scans from Young Justice.

People from s_d have been coming to Sup Forums since it started and comic readers tend to be liberalfags.

What do you mean by SJW though? Because Sup Forums usually doesn't tolerate extreme SJW shit but in Sup Forums's vision we are indistinguishable from them.

I've been coming to this board since early 2008 and as far as I remember anons here were more PC than other boards to a certain degree and I can say this board got even less PC as time went on and it's because Sup Forums was a slow moving and unpopular board and most of what we had was pure comics and cartoons threads, the ocassional move thread, and a bunch of fetish threads.

I also remember how back then if an user would call a character or another user a nigger they would get ignored, told to go back to Sup Forums or they would get made fun of, although it wasn't really because of the racism but because other anons would perceive said user as trying to be edgy.

Right now Sup Forums doesn't give a shit unless you go full Sup Forums /r9k/ or full SJW tumblr about shit. As a matter in fact I think this board is kind of tired of politics and fags who have black and white views and get triggered about everything not fitting their agendas.

> implying people from Scans Daily back then aren't still posting here now.

I know of two maybe four people from SD that probably still post here to this day even if we are all anonymous.

Honestly the SJW narrative is more recent than most of the Sup Forums boards it is thrown around on. It's a joke that we all saw /new/ and pretend like the demographic shift isn't in/on Sup Forums and is instead of boards that have existed long before it.

RIP moot.

You need some of this

>same fucking people

Not really, when girl-wonder started coming to S_D and one of them got mod status it's when they brought up a lot of their SJW shit.

>Exactly. And you know what, theres a reason Sup Forums is the shit hole it is. Because people had these ridiculous views of human sexuality and gender. Look, if you take fucking so seriously, you aren't doing it right.

Yeah but basically when the full move happened is when the SJW shit began rearing it's head to the fullest degree.

That's when the Scans Daily I enjoyed truly died and I came to Sup Forums more and more. I still pop in now and again to Scans Daily. Just to see if it isn't shit. The Kang Dynasty threads there make me wonder at times if the user who did the storytime for it here is the same one who did it there.

Girl-wonder.org were the proto SJWs they used to shit on scans_daily for not being to their standard and since there was no popular or significant social media platforms they only had their website to vent.

I could even say they were more dangerous than SJW geeks because they did go and harass a few DC people at cons for awhile.

That's exactly how Riley and RequiresHate got away with what they did for so long.

>and, in some circles, still are...

I think the term still means that, it's just that such tactics are socially acceptable (depending on who's doing them) enough that the term gets dismissed out of hand

I agree although what I'm saying is that s_d wasn't always like that and some users even tried to go along with it but a lot of them either quit or got banned.

Like I said I also remember a guy getting fed up for being accused of racism against black people when he himself was black, and according to nu s_d they don't allow policing people on their own race and gender but it's what they started doing to that one guy.

I haven't gone there in a long ass time myself, I thought it must have been dead by now.

And yeah I wouldn't be surprised if people who go there come here although I really don't see the problem unless they want Sup Forums to behave like current s_d, they know this is Sup Forums and they should know Sup Forums wouldn't tolerate any of s_d's rules although I'm pretty sure they're aware of thay.

He got banned from scans_daily because he made some complaint about Asian stereotypes in Scott Pilgrim when the author himself is Asian. It was kind of a bullshit reason, but I think the mods were just looking for an excuse to finally get rid of him. And thank God they did, it was the only smart thing they did.

Sup Forums troll successfully having a SJW mod side with him
I guess that was an easy target, but still... well done, sir, well done

Hasn't RequiresHate actually killed someone IRL?

I wonder how bluefall is doing. She was fun, she liked pictures of sexy girls kissing sexy girls as much as any dude.

What's the story about them?

As far as I'm aware, no. However, there was the strong rumours of allegedly her hotel billionaire family covering up poisonings at their hotel, and the police turning a blind eye. Ahem.

There's definitely a lot more of a party line in how you enjoy your comics these days on every side. I know dykes who e.g. hate the Kate/Maggie marriage wrap-up (or hate that Maggie is even in Gotham), or who don't care about TKJ at all but give a shit about Barbara being Oracle. Nowadays that stuff is usually off-message if you're talking about comics on social media.

The "Captain America is a Nazi" is another good example, one that I'm surprised the extent of which it's gotten people agitated. Of course, Spencer doesn't do himself any favors ON social media.

It's weird af to see people who are usually all "comics should be about real important issues and not just escapism" saying things like "I want a Captain America comic that's escapist and fun instead of being about fascism."

Especially because there's a bunch of Nazi coding intentionally dialed into Steve by default, you know? Whether you think it's in poor taste or not it's got grounding in the character, it's explained as well as most things in comics ever are, it's obviously not permanent and it's not played completely straight in his Nazism either.

I've read people engaging with the content of the Sam book and not being happy with it but they were at least being specific. Things like the A. V. Club short takes on the Steve book were just "this is hurtful and thus bad" without any close reading.

Too long, to mention. Wish I could give you the FailFandom-user wiki links, but it's been locked. Cliff notes:
Riley-OG SJW
Used to run the blog "Dumb things crackers say", and various others. Frequently, harassed people that disagreed with them, always changed her race, just so they could always win an argument. I remember her telling a Native person, who criticise them to "suck the white cock". One of the most visicious things that they did as Doxx a 17 year old black, queer kid that called them out. Basically, head of their own cult. Noticably started and didnt finish the "Ark project". Speaking of people with cult of personality.

RequiresHate: likes to tell people they should "get raped by dogs", and that they should have "acid threw in their face", because they don't like their taste in books. Known to continuly harass people. Goes after SF writers, especially. One writer tried to commit suicide.

Decided to become a SF writer herself. Eating where she's shitting. Victims of her found each other and refuge in FF_A. Other victims are brave enough to write blogs about experience.

Lauren Mixon did a huge report on their behaviour.

laurajmixon.com/2014/11/a-report-on-damage-done-by-one-individual-under-several-names/

You'll notice the people she mostly went after were female minorities. (Not gonna call her a WoC.)
Got uncovered around the same time as GG. Tried to paint FFA as a "fandom Sup Forums", got buddy with Quinn and gained an ally in Chu. Played everyone for a fiddle.

Scans Daily is what got me to be a fan of Cass and Steph.

The Sam book keeps making me ask "Where's Eli and the Bradleys?" but I think a Marvel dispute with the creator has them off-limits.

Gillen said something about Eli being reserved and then literally fucking nothing. Seems a waste.

One of these days I'm going to hunt down all those old Cass comics and storytime them on Sup Forums.

I fucking loved those comics, I remember reading through the archive for hours when I was in my early teens.
Loved when she met her Marvelself AKA- X-23.

I'm nostalgic, now.

I hadn't realized how long it's been...

s_d got me to read Justice League International and reboot Legion of Superheroes. A nice place to be a degenerate slash fan. Rest in peace.

Old Cass comics? You mean Cass Toons?

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Yo.